PATRICK AND HIS FRIENDS SCORE A MILLION DOLLARS!

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Patrick and two colleagues at the University of New Mexico just won a grant from the National Science Foundation. You can read about it here.

25 thoughts on “PATRICK AND HIS FRIENDS SCORE A MILLION DOLLARS!

  1. Wolf Böhrendt

    Congratulations to the team!
    George, you should have written “two female colleagues” – there aren’t too many women in computer science – or is the situation different in the USA?

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  2. Deb

    I have no idea what they’re working on, but it sounds important! Please send Patrick (the OTHER Dr. Kelley around here) my congratulations and best wishes for a successful project.

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    1. george Post author

      Deb, thanks for you kind words! I’m proud of Patrick and his colleagues. This is the first time the University of New Mexico has won a National Science Foundation grant in this area. Historic!

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  3. Jeff Meyerson

    Congratulations! I’d be even more impressed if I had the slightest understanding of what they’re doing but this is pretty cool.

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    1. george Post author

      Prashant, I appreciate your congratulations for my son and his team mates. Winning a National Science Foundation grant is impressive!

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  4. Patti Abbott

    Impossible to read an academic title and understand what it’s about but I am mightily impressed. That’s a lot of money. Universities like the overhead in grants like this so Patrick is doubly blessed with his achievement.

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    1. george Post author

      Patti, Patrick spends a big chunk of his time writing grant applications. I’m happy Patrick and his colleagues scored a Big One.

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  5. Richard R.

    FANTASTIC! (as in really, really good, not as in it’s a fantasy). I also don’t understand what “Planning, Collaborative Guidance and Navigation in Uncertain Dynamic Environments,” means, but it sounds like an advanced networking solutions inquiry/solution. Which is a good thing. You should be very proud of your son, George.

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    1. george Post author

      Rick, I’m very proud of both of my children. Patrick and Katie are both pursuing the work they love. I believe that’s a key to Happiness.

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    2. Wolf Böhrendt

      It sounds as if it has a connection to probabiilty theory – and from there on to game theory etc …
      Those were the things I studied 50 years ago – but we had very limited access to a computer!
      Oh, how times have changed – I almost envy the current generation of scientists – my wife’s nephew does “computational physics ” at Vanderbilt (vsiited him a few years ago – he had several big pcs under his conference table running the calculations of his team – yes teamwork is an even bigger component of work in science now. Good to have women on the team too!

      What I also find very positive (one of the best sides of the USA) is the International flavour of the team – nice to speculate from their names where the members’ ancestors came from …
      Are you of Irish descent, George?

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  6. Cap'n Bob

    I understand a lot of their research involves summers on the Riviera, just Patrick and two babes. Must be rough.

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  7. Art Scott

    Ask Dr K The Younger to explain the two-dollars-short-of-a-million amount of the award. I presume it has some bureaucratic significance; say a round million or more requires a higher level of auditing or something (e.g., the auditors have to be invited to come along on the Riviera junkets).

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  8. Art Scott

    From the UNM release “…Kelly recieved an NSF…”. Tsk, tsk, somebody teach these braniacs “i before e except after c”!

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